VietNamNet Bridge – National Assembly deputy Dang Thi Hoang Yen of Long An Province may be removed from the legislative body for her incorrect declarations in her curriculum vitae, under a proposal by the Long An Province Fatherland Front Committee.

Following the discovery that the 53-year-old NA deputy had submitted her incorrect CV to concerned agencies when she was a candidate for the NA election in May 2011, the committee yesterday held a meeting with other relevant agencies to handle the issue at the request by the NA Standing Committee.

After hearing reports related to the case, 76 attendees agreed to carry out a vote on a proposal that the National Assembly remove Yen’s membership.

The vote was made by a secret ballot, and the result was that most of the committee’s members wanted Yen to be removed from the NA, Vo Le Tuan, chairman of the provincial Fatherland Front Committee, told Tuoi Tre.

He added that the ballot’s results would be sent to the NA Standing Committee.

As stated in her profile, Yen is a candidate from outside the Communist Party of Vietnam, since she left blank the area in the form for “the date of admission to the Party, if any”, while many sources confirmed that she was a Party member in the past.

“She was once a Party member but she did not declare this fact. She did not explain why she had left the party and whether she had been expelled from it or not. Such an act is unacceptable, since the issue is important for voters in choosing which candidates to vote for,” an official who attended the meeting told Tuoi Tre.

“If Yen had declared that she is a Party member, we would have conducted a verification over her Party membership, but she had not, so we did not verify this detail until sources said that she once a Party member ,” Tuan said.

She also declared in her profile that her husband was Nguyen Tri Hai, who died in 1989, and did not mention her current husband, Jimmy Tran, from whom she sought a divorce by filing a petition to the Long An Province's People's Court in July 2010, but she recently withdrew the petition after the court’s verdict on the divorce case was cancelled by the Supreme People’s Court.

As reported earlier, while the divorce case was being processed, Jimmy, 57, left Vietnam for the US on July 5, 2010. On September 16, the Ministry of Public Security prosecuted Jimmy for “abusing trust to appropriate assets” when he was general director of Vietnam Urban Development Joint Stock Company (Vietnam Land), located in the Tan Duc Industrial park in Long An Province.

Meanwhile, Yen has issued a notice to the media, including Tuoi Tre, saying she would open a discussion on April 21 at Tan Tao University in Long An’s Duc Hoa District about all issues related to her personal details.

Upon receiving the notice, Tuoi Tre tried to contact her for an interview, but failed to meet her.

Today the Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee will hold an unusual meeting to re-consider Yen’s eligibility as a NA member.

While talking with Tuoi Tre, Vu Trong Kim, general secretary of the Committee, said, “This will be an internal meeting. When we reach a conclusion regarding Yen’s case, we will notify the media.”

VietNamNet/Tuoi Tre